this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had already been swirling that this would occur, but this just cements that they were correct
I mean, they let themselves get bought by Yahoo and they banned erotic art. Its like they want to fail.
Then they got bought automattic, the owners of wordpress.com
Yes, I recall when they had a policy of never allowing account deletion.